Clackamas County Administrator Don Krupp permanently ended the county weighmaster duty of pulling over commercial vehicles Monday, after a report found the county weighmaster program lacked proper training, safety standards and accountability.

Krupp said the other weighmaster duties will continue, such as permitting, and educating businesses on proper vehicle standards and safety. However, the 15 to 20 enforcement stops weighmasters usually make to tell drivers they are out of compliance are no longer allowed until the county decides how to continue the program.

"I take these findings very seriously and have ordered a permanent suspension of enforcement stops involving weighmaster personnel while the County reconsiders the future operational status of the program," Krupp said in a statement.

Krupp had ordered weighmasters to stop the practice immediately following the death of a weighmaster in February, and made that permanent Monday.

Weighmasters have the authority to write citations for non-compliant trucks and commercial vehicles, but they mostly focus on ensuring the trucks meet safety standards.

Clackamas County sheriff's deputies believe Dirck White, 41, of Edgewood, Wash., used a handgun to fatally shoot Waxenfelter, 47. White is still at large.

After Waxenfelter's death, the county ordered a risk assessment of the program. The report, released Monday, lists several reasons the weighmaster program puts employees at risk, has no accountability rules and costs the county more than twice weighmaster programs in comparable counties because Clackamas County officers never issue tickets that could generate revenue.

"When comparing Clackamas County Weighmaster Program to other county weighmaster programs, it was readily apparent that Clackamas County was lacking and deficient in areas of training, employee safety and the misguided perception of being law enforcement orientated," Wes Curtis and Time Huegel of Commercial Truck Consulting in Grants Pass wrote in the report. "This perception was validated through interviews of current and past Clackamas County Weighmasters. The law enforcement authority afforded to County Weighmasters in Oregon is only valid under a very restrictive set of laws as set forth in ORS's. At any other time, the weighmaster has NO authority in any law enforcement capacity."

The Oregon Attorney General in 2004 determined that weighmasters do not have authority to stop vehicles on the open road, as Clackamas County officers do. In most of the state, weighmasters only stop vehicles at permanent or temporary weigh stations.Check OregonLive.com later for more reporting on the risk assessment report.